Which of these is the most accurate definition of the discipline of psychology?
(A) The study of planets
(B) The scientific study of plants
(C) The scientific study of mind and behavior
(D) The scientific study of the human mind and mental processes
What is
(C) The Scientific Study of Mind and Behavior
100
What is an example of top-down processing?
(A) jigsaw puzzle without the box cover picture
(B) sitting around a fire roasting marsh mellows and getting burnt for the first time
(C) box cover picture of a jigsaw puzzle
(D) none of the above
What is
(C) Box cover picture of a jigsaw puzzle
100
The _____ is the part of the brain responsible for the formation of long-term memories.
(A) basil ganglia
(B) hippocampus
(C) hypothalamus
(D) amygdala
What is
(B) Hippocampus
100
Studies have found that the best way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect is to ______.
(A) forget about it and let the item just come to you
(B) take a nap
(C) none of these will work
(D) try even harder to remember the items
What is
(A) forget about it and let the item just come to you
100
A variable that the experimenter manipulates iss called
(A) correlation
(B) independent variable
(C) control condition
(D) dependent variable
What is
(B) Independent Variable
200
_________ refers to the degree to which a test actually measures what it is supposed to measure
(A) Reliablilty
(B) Validity
(C) Consistency
(D) Standardization
What is
(B) Validity
200
Some people believe that ________ can be sent to consumers, prompting them to a buy a product without them being aware of recieving such messages.
(A) selective perception
(B) below threshold perceptions
(C) subliminal messages
(D) inductive perceptions
What is
(C) Subliminal Perception
200
A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?
(A) No, because eyewitnesses are not usually honest
(B) Yes, because seeing is believing
(C) No, because there is a great possibility of a " false positive" identification
(D) Yes, because eyewitnesses are very confident about their testimony
What is
(C) No, because there is a great possibility of a " false positive" identification
200
Dr.Patterson is conducting a study comparing the effect of two types of therapy to see which is most successful in treating depression. Type of therapy is the _____ variable.
(A) control
(B) independent
(C) dependent
(D) random
What is
(B) Independent
200
What are the processes of memory in the correct order?
(A) capturing, encoding, retrieval
(B) retrieval, encoding, storage
(C) encoding, capturing, retrieval
(D) encoding, storage, retrieval
What is
(D) encoding, storage, retrieval
300
Jane Goodall's research with Chimpanzees and gorillas can best be described as ...
(A) a case study
(B) naturalistic observation
(C) experimentation
(D) participant observation
What is
(B) Naturalistic Observation
300
When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all--- the sensation is gone. What happens ?
(A) perceptional defense
(B) subliminal perception
(C) sensory fatigue
(D) habituation
What is
(D) Habituation
300
Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information, the better it will be remembered?
(A) parallel distributed processing model
(B) three stage
(C) levels-of-processing model
(D) information-processing model
What is
(C) levels-of-processing model
300
Godden and Baddeley found that if you study on land, you do better when tested on land, and if you study underwater you do better when tested underwater. This is an example of ______.
(A) accessible decoding
(B) encoding specificity
(C) memorability
(D) registered learning
What is
(B) encoding specificity
300
Which of the 5 senses do you receive from the frontal lobe of the brain?
(A) vision
(B) hear
(C) smell
(D) touch
What is
(C) Smell
400
A perfect correlation, whether positive or negative, is ________ in the real world.
(A) common
(B) expected
(C) imperfect
(D) rare
What is
(D) Rare
400
People's tendency to perceive a thing a certain way because their previous experiences or expectations influence them is called
(A) perceptual expectancy
(B) bottom-up processing
(C) Muller-Lyer
(D) telepathy
What is
(A) Perceptual Expectancy
400
Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when ________.
(A) older information already in memory interferes with the retrieval of newer information
(B) newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information
(C) information is not attended to and fails to be encoded
(D) information that is not accessed decays from the storage system over time
What is
(A) older information already in memory interferes with the retrieval of newer information
400
Which area of the brain did Louis Victor Leborgne lose?
(A) hippocampus
(B) broca
(C) cerebellum
(D) prefrontal cortex
What is
(B) Broca
400
Recall means ...
(A) the ability to retrieve exact information learned at an earlier time
(B) a measure of memory in which a person only needs to identify items previously learned
(C) one feels as though one knows information but can only generate bits and pieces
(D) false belief that one could/should have predicted the outcome of an event
What is
(A) the ability to retrieve exact information learned at an earlier time
500
The placebo effect means ______.
(A) the expectations of the participants influence their behavior
(B) experimenter bias causes the subjects to act strangely
(C) that there is no control group
(D) all conditions in an experiment are the same
What is
(A) the expectations of the participants influence their behavior
500
Analyzing smaller features and building up to a complete perception is called ____.
(A) top-down processing
(B) bottom-up processing
(C) perceptual construction
(D) hypothesis formation
What is
(B) Bottom-Up Processing
500
Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called
(A) eidetic images
(B) eyewitness images
(C) elaborative rehearsals
(D) flashbulb memories
What is
(D) flashbulb memories
500
What illusion is more common in industrialized societies?
(A) phi phenomenon
(B) muller-lyer
(C) stroboscopic motion
(D) ponzo illusion
What is
(B) Muller-Lyer
500
In an experiment, subjects saw a slide presentation of an accident containing a stop sign/ Subjects later read a description of the accident describing a yield sign. When the subjects were asked about the type of sign at the accident, they had updated their memories with the incorrect new information. This is an example of the ____.
(A) misinformation effect
(B) constructive processing effect
(C) levels-of-processing
(D) instant replay